Book Quote by Kalki Koechlin

Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of…

— George Saunders

“I turned the page in Slaughterhouse Five, a forbidden book at Belmont because we were too young to read about soldiers swearing and bombs…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“So it goes." Unlike many of these quotes, the repeated refrain from Vonnegut's classic Slaughterhouse-Five isn't notable for its unique wording so much as…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“... the atmosphere of war brutalizes everyone involved, begets a fanaticism in which the original moral factor is buried at the bottom of a…

— Howard Zinn

“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels…

— J.D. Salinger

“Never lose time in sending the scapegoat to the slaughterhouse.”

— Ali Sheikh

“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage…

— James Connolly

War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.

— Harry Patch

“Let me tell you the truth about the world to which you so desperately want to return. It is a place of pain and…

— John Connolly

'War and Peace' is a life-changing book. You do have time to read it. Digest

— Nyakallo Lets'ela

“All war is philosophical. That's why we call it war. Strip it of its paint and it's nothing more than murder.”

— Roshani Chokshi

“War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore